From Plan to Payment

About the eBook

Can we afford this? Can we hire someone? Where will we stand in three months? Every entrepreneur asks these questions, and the answer is in the bank account. The eBook shows you step by step how to answer them: see, plan, steer, pay.

Taken to its conclusion, planning has to steer payments too – otherwise it remains a report. That is why this eBook goes further than a classic guide: from rolling planning to invoice approval with thresholds to the question of when an invoice gets paid. Plus the duties of management and a compact chapter on AI that does the groundwork for you without taking the decision away from you.

In other words: cash reserves are a key measure of a company's vitality, resilience and security.

The proven craft of cash flow planning, rewritten for 2026: simple and pragmatic, with a focus on what you can put into practice. With current figures on liquidity reserves and insolvencies, two case studies from practice, one negative case study and a checklist.

Contents of the eBook

• See

  Liquidity, bank balance and cash buffer days

• Plan

  Ingredients, realistic plans, the outside view

• Steer

  Rolling planning, the 13-week view, early crisis detection

• Pay

  Invoice approval, timing of payments, company cards

• AI

  The building blocks, data protection and seven tasks for the AI

• Practice

  MYBALI COFFEE, Basenbox, Signa, rules of thumb and checklist